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0 pointstoomuchtodo6y ago0 comments

I think I'll add, "Are you willing and able to extract me from a country I'm located in (in the course of our work) while a revolution is actively in progress?" to my list of interview questions.

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jeffrallen6y ago· 2 in thread

Then you might like working for Doctors Without Borders, who can actually answer yes to that.

brighter2morrow6y ago

They're a bit controversial, there's plenty of non-controversial groups doing the same work without the baggage.

secfirstmd6y ago

To be fair, I work in the NGO space and MSF do outstanding work. Of all NGOs they do some of the hardest (Ebola, Syria etc) work out there. One of the few I happily give money to.

gowld6y ago· 1 in thread

Are you ready to have your mind blown?

Read this article from 20 years ago:

https://www.wired.com/1999/03/bezos-3/

Jeff Bezos:

"At a certain point I was sort of a professional dater," he explains about his years in New York. His systematic approach to the quest for a permanent relationship was to develop what he labeled "women flow," a play on the "deal flow" [...] "The number-one criterion was that I wanted a woman who could get me out of a Third World prison," he says.

"What I really wanted was someone resourceful. [...] ' If I tell somebody I'm looking for a woman who can get me out of a Third World prison, they start thinking Ross Perot - Ah-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha!"

toomuchtodoOP6y ago

This is excellent criteria for finding a partner.

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